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Page 19
... Proust and Joyce and the other masters of the early twentieth century have , in Cyril Connolly's words , ' finished off the novel ' , and yet where there are very strong cultural and sociological reasons , ranging from the dedication ...
... Proust and Joyce and the other masters of the early twentieth century have , in Cyril Connolly's words , ' finished off the novel ' , and yet where there are very strong cultural and sociological reasons , ranging from the dedication ...
Page 35
... Proust , which offered opportunities for the ever greater and more leisurely contemplation of character , even if at the ex- pense of dramatically interesting action . And in so far as Proust - like Joyce represented the culmination of ...
... Proust , which offered opportunities for the ever greater and more leisurely contemplation of character , even if at the ex- pense of dramatically interesting action . And in so far as Proust - like Joyce represented the culmination of ...
Page 36
... Proust as ' grave - diggers of the nineteenth - century novel ' ) : This crisis in the character obviously corresponds to a similar crisis in the concept of man . Modern man can be seen as a mere numerical entity within the most ...
... Proust as ' grave - diggers of the nineteenth - century novel ' ) : This crisis in the character obviously corresponds to a similar crisis in the concept of man . Modern man can be seen as a mere numerical entity within the most ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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